Prenatal

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The terms prenatal (praenatal), prepartal (praepartal), antenatal and antepartal mean before birth”. They are composed of the Latin prefixes prae- or ante- "before (approaching)" and the adjective natalis "birth related, concerning the birth" or the noun partus, -ūs "the giving birth" (therefore the forms are correctly called -partual and non-partal).

In medicine , it refers to physical and psychological changes in the pregnant woman and the fetus that occur during pregnancy and before birth . The medicine in the prenatal period is called prenatal medicine . Under prenatal diagnosis refers to investigations of the unborn child and the pregnant women under prenatal medicine prenatal examination and treatment of unborn children.

The term perinatal or peripartal is used for processes that take place around the time of birth (i.e. shortly before or after the birth) . Events or conditions after birth are referred to as postnatal or postpartum .

The adjectives prenatal, antenatal, perinatal and postnatal relate to the child ( e.g. prenatal diagnosis ), the adjectives antepartum, antepartum, peripartum and postpartum refer to the mother ( e.g. postpartum mood crises ). Natus is the birth from the perspective of the child (“I am born”), Partus is the birth from the perspective of the mother (“I give birth”).

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